Police: Brockton man killed in Friday morning crash with SUV

A 35-year-old Brockton man was killed in an accident involving a dirt bike and a SUV Friday morning, police said.

Benjamin Paulin The Enterprise @benpaulin_ENT

BROCKTON – Manny Rodriguez was in his house when he heard the sound of a motorcycle coming down the street past his home at 3 a.m. Friday.

Seconds later he heard a loud bang and rushed outside to investigate.

“I heard the dirt bike coming really fast and then I heard this big bang. It was really loud,” Rodriguez, 60, said. “So, I went out and I saw the dirt bike under the car.”

Stephen Noel Ramos Jr., a 35-year-old Brockton man, died in the accident at Perkins Avenue and South Leyden Street. Police said his motorcycle struck an SUV.

George Fiske, the director of Funerarias Multi Culturel on Court Street in Brockton, confirmed Ramos died in the accident Friday morning. Fiske said he plans to meet with the Ramos family this morning to plan services.

Rodriguez, the accident witness, said he called 911 as he frantically looked around for someone who might have been injured in the crash. He said the woman who had been driving the SUV was visibly shaken.

“I couldn’t find the guy. I looked everywhere. Three minutes later I looked over the fence of the house that’s across from my house and I saw him laying there,” he said.

Rodriguez said the man lay on the ground and wasn’t moving.

“From where the accident happened he must have flown 25 to 30 feet and over the fence and onto the lawn,” he said.

William Stoddard lives across from Rodriguez on Perkins Avenue. He has a fence, which was undamaged, that is about 5 feet tall surrounding his front yard. Stoddard said he was told by police the man’s body was found on the grass near his front door.

“Apparently, somehow the guy on the bike wound up in my front yard. I got blood all over the front of my house out there,” Stoddard, 74, said.

A black shoe was found by police in the driveway next to Stoddard’s house, more than 50 feet away from where the crash occurred.

Stoddard said he did not hear the accident but woke up and saw the flashing lights from the police responding to the scene.

He said he’s never seen such a bad accident at the intersection in the more than 30 years he’s lived there.

“We get a few fender-benders out here from time to time, somebody will run the stop sign,” Stoddard said.

Rodriguez said he’s seen a lot of accidents on his side of the street.

“There are a lot of accidents at that corner because the people don’t make the stop sign,” he said.

Several calls to Brockton police for details about the accident were not returned Friday.